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Backing up a Linux (or Other *nix) System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-can-go-wrong-nothing-can-go-wrong dept.

bigsmoke writes "My buddy Halfgaar finally got sick of all the helpful users on forums and mailing lists who keep suggesting backup methods and strategies to others which simply don't, won't and can't work. According to him, this indicates that most of the backups made by *nix users simply won't help you recover, while you'd think that disaster recovery is the whole point of doing backups. So, now he explains to the world once and for all what's involved in backing up *nix systems."

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  1. Re:/. is slipping by LearnToSpell · · Score: 3, Funny

    RTFM n00bz!!

    dd if=/dev/sda | rsh user@dest "gzip -9 >yizzow.gz"

    And then just restore with
    rsh user@dest "cat yizzow.gz | gunzip" | dd of=/dev/sda

    Jeez. Was that so tough?

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  2. Hey thanks... by Seraphim_72 · · Score: 2, Funny
    My buddy Halfgaar finally got sick of all the helpful users on forums and mailing lists...
    Hey thanks, Fuck You too.

    Signed
    The Helpful People on forums and mailing lists
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